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  1. jung
    Well actually...I can still remember the Horace Clark Yankees. So maybe there is a Yankee team that this one harkens back to.
  2. jung
    This is not the Bronx Bombers of any year...even the ones I can't remember any more.
  3. jung
    When you can't even play in your own OF.....Its a problem.
  4. jung
    There is your lead off hitter...Verdugo.
  5. jung
    Cora has at least two better choices for lead off and I really don't know why he is forcing this Santana thing. If the Sox get to post season games (and they should) look for teams to just find a way to pitch around the big three in the middle of the batting order. Find a way to deal with them so that they don't completely wreck your day and I am not convinced the Sox have an answer.
  6. jung
    Like I said in the earlier post, Stanton's role in baseball these days appears to be building pitcher's confidence in their FB's. Stanton IMO is well onto the back 9 of a career.
  7. jung
    Need I say more.
  8. jung
    Yup, I did not like his FB last outing and its not much to look at tonight either. Of course there is Stanton who's new role in baseball appears to be building pitchers confidence in their FB. Better arm speed on his Change tonight and that is carrying him.
  9. jung
    Its so hard to see how far they go in this STUPID RF. Would love to see how far back that Devers HR would be in our park.
  10. jung
    I suppose we can afford it this many games over 500, but I don't see the Santana leading off experiment ending well.
  11. jung
    Have done multiple big trade shows in Houston. The thing I did not like about the "underground" system from hotel to Trade Show venue is that given how much work there is to do at a Trade Show you never went outside at all until it was time to leave for the airport and the flight home. At least in my case, that got to me after awhile. 3-4 days of nothing but heavily conditioned air was about all I could stand and often these shindigs were longer than that.
  12. jung
    Glad to hear you came out of that OK. Good hearing from you again too!
  13. jung
    Hey Arroyo might be a good choice. But I don't think he would stay there very long. A bit inconsistent and he might be an all year injury waiting to happen.....in and out of the lineup. I do not want to see them lose tomorrow. Does not matter who you are playing. Teams that can lose 4 straight games worry me.
  14. jung
    I'm OK. Forced isolation for most of a year waiting for the vaccines. I am in that 1% of asthma sufferers for whom just the asthma can kill ya'. Has tried to kill me twice already with no help from anything else. COVID was taking 30 year olds with my kind of acute asthma. But made it this far. The isolation part hasn't been easy. Thank God my son has been living with me and we have had a good COVID plan and living arrangement. Probably saved my ass for what it is worth.
  15. jung
    lol
  16. jung
    I think the lead-off hitter thing in baseball is yet another thing that has been utterly confused by this insistence on depending on stats that have driven teams to throw HR hitters at the top of their orders. So now teams are questioning whether their lead off hitter hits enough HR's??????????? In the same breath they are downgrading guys that can work counts, get on base from lead-off any way they can that have enough speed to steal a bag. They probably think Betts would be the ideal lead-off hitter. Well OK....how many Mookie's are there? Possibly the return to baseballs that are not rocket ships to Mars will return some "normalcy" to the situation and less consternation about what actually makes a lead-off hitter. I don't think Hernandez should be lead-off either. Maybe they should stick Verdugo there and stay with him come hell or high water because I don't really know who else I would put there day in and day out from this team.
  17. jung
    Seems to me that every team in baseball attempts this "pitch the guy back to health" thing now. If he can limp or hobble out to the mound and his arm is not falling completely off, he pitches. So it is not unusual to me to see a guy like ERod not really ready but pitching anyway. Everybody throwing heat as hard as they are throwing it and everybody throwing wicked breaking stuff has sort of forced this "all pitchers on deck all the time" thing. Seems like we can't have enough pitchers and I think that is the norm now. I actually don't know how this generation of Managers does it. It just looks like they are rolling bones and trying to determine their pitching moves based on how the bones land. Most teams don't have enough pitching to do any better than that it seems. The big decision of the night for most Managers seems to be "can I get 5 innings out of the starter and I am living right at 6". Everything else flows from that.
  18. jung
    Great change, ability to spot a rising four seem FB, good Cutter and an iffy Slider Inability to throw the Cutter and the Slider well in the same outing. Occasionally will toss the Curve when his Slider is total crap and his Cutter is not working the way he likes it. That is ERod IMO. His four seam rising FB just has no movement so far this year. He is truly vulnerable without being able to spot that rising FB. Even at 93-94 mph as long as it does in fact rise it makes the rest of his pitches so much better. IMO we won't see anything like the real Erod until he can throw the rising FB again with some movement. Its flat as a pancake right now. Any decent hitter past high school can hit a 93-94 flat FB. Also while we are seeing wicked breaking stuff from pitchers this year, ERod's seem much like they were with the 2018-2020 ML baseball. He is just not right yet IMO.
  19. jung
    Do any of our other starters look like aces to you? Plus whenever you use the word "touted" you are talking about the Sox PR machine. Andrew Benintendi was "touted" as I recall. What they have really been pushing is the return of Sale. I don't blame them. But it does sound kind of desperate.
  20. jung
    I would reserve judgement on Erod until he is actually at least looking like Erod again. He is not there yet this year.
  21. jung
    What is it with Pavetta. Vaz is the Catcher and it is a battery. But Vaz is leading of the inning Nick. IMO the Sox have some real cracked dome pitchers this year. ERod looks normal and even tempered in this crowd.
  22. jung
    And Tucker picks now to look like he can actually put one foot out in front of the other.
  23. jung
    What the f*** was Tucker doing looking out to RF as he cruised into 2nd base. One of these nights he is going to miss the base entirely running to it.
  24. jung
    What is it with this guy Tucker. That was a heck of an effort in RF (tongue in cheek). Maybe he does not actually like to play baseball.
  25. jung
    I don't know how good they are. They are just getting guys back now that are integral to their team. Bregman is starting to look like he has just turned the corner and is on the back 9.
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